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How popular is “Pete” in the USA?

Number of people named “Pete” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Pete” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Pete” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Pete” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Pete” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Pete” by birth year

This chart shows how “Pete” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 50 0.000248159 50 -100%
1881 57 0.000295815 57 -100%
1882 60 0.00027084 60 -100%
1883 43 0.000198206 43 -100%
1884 81 0.000332702 81 -100%
1885 56 0.000232506 56 -100%
1886 54 0.000211503 54 -100%
1887 47 0.000189982 47 -100%
1888 82 0.000273813 82 -100%
1889 60 0.000207651 60 -100%
1890 60 0.00019907 60 -100%
1891 53 0.00018488 53 -100%
1892 74 0.000221309 74 -100%
1893 64 0.000196788 64 -100%
1894 68 0.000200774 68 -100%
1895 66 0.000188023 66 -100%
1896 63 0.000176232 63 -100%
1897 76 0.000219047 76 -100%
1898 53 0.000138942 53 -100%
1899 74 0.000218139 74 -100%
1900 116 0.00025763 116 -100%
1901 79 0.000228448 79 -100%
1902 75 0.000193932 75 -100%
1903 69 0.000181007 69 -100%
1904 71 0.000175967 71 -100%
1905 86 0.000202868 86 -100%
1906 80 0.000186719 80 -100%
1907 122 0.000262146 122 -100%
1908 131 0.000268086 131 -100%
1909 120 0.000234731 120 -100%
1910 156 0.000264089 156 -100%
1911 143 0.000221954 143 -100%
1912 263 0.000266178 263 -100%
1913 340 0.000299004 340 -100%
1914 432 0.000305011 432 -100%
1915 531 0.00028978 531 -100%
1916 587 0.000303451 5 582 -98%
1917 644 0.000320917 5 639 -98%
1918 638 0.000293859 638 -100%
1919 634 0.000300439 6 628 -98%
1920 636 0.000281087 636 -100%
1921 675 0.000289141 7 668 -98%
1922 649 0.000283511 5 644 -98%
1923 628 0.000272749 5 623 -98%
1924 633 0.000265787 5 628 -98%
1925 651 0.000279004 5 646 -98%
1926 649 0.000282677 6 643 -98%
1927 607 0.00026171 8 599 -97%
1928 614 0.000271569 614 -100%
1929 590 0.000269141 6 584 -98%
1930 578 0.000259975 578 -100%
1931 597 0.000283693 5 592 -98%
1932 536 0.000253873 6 530 -98%
1933 521 0.000260572 7 514 -97%
1934 602 0.000289867 602 -100%
1935 588 0.000281353 588 -100%
1936 559 0.000269063 559 -100%
1937 510 0.000239361 510 -100%
1938 521 0.000235472 8 513 -97%
1939 543 0.000246433 543 -100%
1940 521 0.000226258 8 513 -97%
1941 534 0.000219174 534 -100%
1942 561 0.000205358 561 -100%
1943 640 0.000226745 640 -100%
1944 655 0.000243487 6 649 -98%
1945 578 0.000217874 578 -100%
1946 688 0.000215316 5 683 -99%
1947 738 0.000204868 738 -100%
1948 654 0.000189427 654 -100%
1949 580 0.000166438 580 -100%
1950 560 0.000159847 560 -100%
1951 537 0.000145776 537 -100%
1952 504 0.000132701 504 -100%
1953 531 0.000137792 531 -100%
1954 500 0.000125606 5 495 -98%
1955 556 0.000138478 5 551 -98%
1956 573 0.000138975 573 -100%
1957 651 0.000154921 651 -100%
1958 758 0.000183362 758 -100%
1959 768 0.000184705 768 -100%
1960 754 0.00018152 754 -100%
1961 697 0.000168264 697 -100%
1962 634 0.000157111 5 629 -98%
1963 609 0.000153858 609 -100%
1964 554 0.000142504 5 549 -98%
1965 449 0.000123847 449 -100%
1966 394 0.00011336 6 388 -97%
1967 384 0.000113111 5 379 -97%
1968 357 0.000105671 357 -100%
1969 342 0.000098408 342 -100%
1970 374 0.000103701 374 -100%
1971 367 0.000106924 7 360 -96%
1972 318 0.000101177 5 313 -97%
1973 284 0.000094137 5 279 -96%
1974 268 0.000088158 268 -100%
1975 258 0.000085448 258 -100%
1976 261 0.000086017 261 -100%
1977 271 0.000085314 9 262 -93%
1978 216 0.000068056 5 211 -95%
1979 269 0.000080854 269 -100%
1980 220 0.00006387 220 -100%
1981 236 0.00006822 236 -100%
1982 209 0.000059579 209 -100%
1983 206 0.00005948 206 -100%
1984 195 0.000055894 195 -100%
1985 182 0.000050993 182 -100%
1986 186 0.00005229 186 -100%
1987 172 0.000047703 172 -100%
1988 179 0.000048443 179 -100%
1989 179 0.000046561 179 -100%
1990 169 0.000042758 169 -100%
1991 167 0.000042873 167 -100%
1992 128 0.000033322 128 -100%
1993 146 0.000038724 146 -100%
1994 130 0.000034968 130 -100%
1995 118 0.000032221 118 -100%
1996 126 0.000034547 126 -100%
1997 121 0.000033372 121 -100%
1998 123 0.00003344 123 -100%
1999 110 0.000029779 110 -100%
2000 99 0.000026191 99 -100%
2001 90 0.000024042 90 -100%
2002 97 0.000025948 97 -100%
2003 94 0.000024722 94 -100%
2004 86 0.000022508 86 -100%
2005 80 0.000020807 80 -100%
2006 88 0.000022244 88 -100%
2007 89 0.000022263 89 -100%
2008 88 0.000022388 88 -100%
2009 82 0.000021465 82 -100%
2010 65 0.000017588 65 -100%
2011 66 0.000018044 66 -100%
2012 64 0.000017499 64 -100%
2013 63 0.000017281 63 -100%
2014 70 0.000018886 70 -100%
2015 62 0.000016753 62 -100%
2016 49 0.000013356 49 -100%
2017 56 0.000015659 56 -100%
2018 60 0.000017065 60 -100%
2019 44 0.000012677 44 -100%
2020 51 0.000015267 51 -100%
2021 58 0.00001712 58 -100%
2022 55 0.000016257 55 -100%
2023 54 0.000016308 54 -100%
2024 40 0.000012017 40 -100%

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